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The rolinian
Voi'tt;
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
News 1 -5 /Features 6-7
Sports 8-9/Classified 10
Telephone- (910) 334-5752
FM- (910) 334-3518
Online-http://oiolinian.uncg.edu/
Thursday
August 29,1996
NFL Preview
See the story page 8
£,*• Men's Soccer:
*# Spartan's triumph, page 8
Issue 2,
Volume 76
Searching For A Job
Kim McFadden/THK CAROLINIAN
The Seventh Annual Part-Time Job Fair was held In Cone Ballroom of the Elliott University Center on Tuesday. Over
50 potential employers took part in the event, which stirred up mixed reviews by students. For more Information, see
story on page 5.
Native Hawaiians consider
asking for Islands back
Ellen Nakashima
Times/Post News Senice
You can't lurn back the hands
of time, says Billy Pa.a Waikiki
surfing Instructor. But sometimes,
when he looks up at Diamond
Head, across the sweep of sand
freckled with tourists, he wishes
he could.
He talks about how Hawaiians
are sometimes shunned in their
own home. "A lot of my people
arc not welcome in Waikiki," he
said.
"Some of the hotels, the restau-rants,
the bars, they see a Hawai-ian
kid come around, they think.
'Watch out. There's gonna be
trouble.. ..' It's ridiculous."
He resents the hotels, the traf-fic
jams, the multinationals build-ing
golf courses and shopping
malls.
So Pa voted "ae," or yes, in a
state-funded referendum this
month. Only people of Hawaiian
ancestry, who make up one-tilth
of Hawaii's 1.2 million residents,
could participate. The governor-appointed
sovereignty elections
commission says that is because
the native Hawaiians' land and
sovereignty were forcibly taken
more than 100 years ago. The
mail-in ballot, results of which
could be announced next week,
asked one question, in English and
Hawaiian: "Shall the Hawaiian
people elect delegates to propose
a native Hawaiian government?"
The idea, organizers say, is not
to decide now what form sover-
Thursday:
Partly Cloudy
High in the mid 80's
Low in the lower 7()'s
Friday:
Partly Cloudy
High in mid 80's
Low in high 60's
Source: National Oceanic and
Atmoiphrric Administration
eignty should take, but whether
Hawaiians want to pursue it.
Proposals range from complete
independence to a land deal in
which the descendants of
Polynesian islanders who arrived
in Hawaii 1,000 years or more ago
would get all or some of the 1.75
million acres, almost half the state,
they say was stolen when the last
Hawaiian monarch was over-thrown.
On Jan. 17. 1893, 13 white
businessmen backed by three
companies of U.S. Marines forced
the Hawaiian queen,
Lili'uokalani. from her throne,
seized crown lands and ended
Hawaii's independence. The busi-nessmen,
mostly American,
wanted sugar tariffs lifted.
This group declared the Repub-lic
of Hawaii in 1894. The islands
were annexed as a U.S. territory
four years later. In 1959, given the
choice of remaining a territory or
becoming a state. Hawaiians voted
overwhelmingly for the latter and
Hawaii became the 50th state.
In 1993, on the 100th anniver-sary
of the overthrow, thcn-Gov.
John D. Waihee III (D) and the
first governor of Hawaiian ances-try,
raised the Hawaiian flag over
the state capitol. That same year.
Congress passed and President
Clinton signed a resolution apolo-gizing
to Hawaiians for the over-throw.
Gov. Benjamin J. Cayetano (D),
a second-generation Filipino
American, said he is all for Ha-waiians
pursuing sovereignty. But
it must be "a kind of sovereignty
which is acceptable to the non-
Hawaiians, as well as the United
States government."
Cayetano said the sovereignty
movement's lack of clarity has
made some people nervous. "The
bankers in town have told me that
they hope the movement would
become more defined because
there's so much uncertainty," he
said. "All sorts of activists are say-ing
so many things that no one
knows where consensus may be
gained."
To Pa, a stocky 57-year-old
whose bloodlines are "over half
Hawaiian," the issue is clear: "To
be blunt, I think my ancestors got
screwed."
Like American Indians, native
Hawaiians suffer disproportion-ately
high rates of poverty, alco-holism,
suicide and incarceration.
Forty percent of Hawaii's home-less
are native Hawaiian, said
Mahealani Kamau'u, who, as ex-ecutive
director of the Native Ha-waiian
Legal Corp., represents
Hawaiians pressing land claims
arising from prc-statehood prac-tices.
"We're one-fifth of the popula-tion
here," said Kamau'u, a mem-ber
of the Hawaiian Sovereignty
Elections Council. "We pay one-fifth
into the treasury. Yet we're
the most landless of the people liv-ing
in Hawaii. ... All we're ask-ing
for is our land and self-deter-mination."
This kind of talk upsets many
longtime islanders of non-Hawai-ian
descent such as Thurston
Twigg-Smith. "It's a crazy no-tion!"
said
Twigg-Smith, 74, chairman of
the board of the Honolulu
Advertiser,whose grandfather was
a leader of the 1893 coup. "The
Civil War showed that you can't
secede from the Union."
Twigg-Smith, who is Cauca-sian,
or "haole," maintains the
land never belonged to the people,
but to Hawaiian chiefs and so were
government lands.
Haunani-Kay Trask, press sec-retary
for the sovereignty group
Ka Lahui Hawaii, dismisses
Twigg-Smith's remarks as "just a
white man's version" of history.
"All the constitutions in Hawaii
clearly say that the chief repre-sented
the people and held the land
for the people," said Trask, who
heads the Center for Hawaiian
Studies at the University of Ha-waii.
In 1894, the provisional govern-ment
seized control of almost 2
million acres later ceded to the
U.S. government. Some was used
for military bases. The rest went
to the state, which has built on it
Ruhm appointed Senior
Economist with Clinton
By Wilson Davis
Information Services
Greensboro - Dr. Christopher
I. Ruhm. a professor of econom-ics
at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, has been
appointed as a senior economist
with President Bill Clinton's
Council of Economic Advisors.
The appointment in Washing-ton
is for one year. Ruhm will take
a year's leave of absence from the
Joseph M. Bryan School of Busi-ness
and Economics at UNCG,
beginning at the end of August.
Ruhm received the call to ask
him if he would be interested in
the position from Alicia Munnell,
one of three members of the
Council of Economic Advisors.
"I was totally stunned," said
Ruhm. "But I was also pleasantly
surprised."
Ruhm will be one of 10 senior
economists with the Council of
Economic Advisors, which re-ports
to the President.
The senior economists are not
political appointees, but are in-stead
professional appointments.
"I'm very excited about going,"
said Ruhm. "I'm thrilled and ex-cited,
and a bit nervous all at the
same time. It's going to be a good
challenge for me."
"We are delighted for Chris to
have this opportunity," said Dr.
James Weeks, dean of the Bryan
School. "It reflects favorably not
only on Chris but also on the Uni-versity,
the Bryan School and the
quality of our faculty.
His appointment is recognition
at the highest level of the quality
of his research and its importance
for public policy.
"We are going to miss Chris in
the year ahead, but we know he
will do an outstanding job in his
position in Washington."
Ruhm came to UNCG in 1991.
He specializes in labor econom-ics,
health economics and applied
econometrics.
Since arriving at UNCG, he
has been a prolific researcher.
His studies have gained the at-tention
of such publications as
Newsweek magazine, the Wall
Street Journal and USA Today,
among others.
He also has been interviewed
on National Public Radio on the
subject of Physicians Health
Plans.
Ruhm says he sees his Wash-ington
appointment as "A once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity."
"I am looking forward to get-ting
hand-on experience in the
area ofhow public policy is made
in Washington," he said.
"Of course, we teach about
public policy, but people tell me
that when you are actually there
and working in government, you
learn a tremendous amount."
Ruhm's areas of expertise as a
senior economist will be in the
areas of Social Security and
Medicare. But he said it is his un-pi1^
^M
1
V
On His Way To Washington:
Dr. Christopher J. Ruhm was
appointed to Clinton's Council of
Economic Advisor
derstanding "that you can be called
to work in other areas and on other
issues as well."
The Council of Economic Advi-sors
and its staff provide analysis
of a presidential proposal or a pro-posal
made in Congress.
"We will be called upon to pro-vide
an analysis ofthe proposal and
to try to determine its economic im-pact,"
said Ruhm.
He paused and then said, "I am
not going up there to push public
policy in any particular area. But
my job will be to help provide in-formation
and insight into issues
that come before the Council of
Economic Advisors My under-standing
is that they keep us ex-tremely
busy."
Report shows no widespread
contamination of ground water
Bv Ernie Seneca
N.C. Department ofAgriculture
Raleigh —A four-year study to
determine the effect of labeled
pesticide use on ground water in
North Carolina reports that no
widespread contamination exists,
although several areas with con-firmed
chemical residues still
need further monitoring.
The N.C. Pesticide Board on
Tuesday adopted the final report
of the Intcragcncy Pesticide
Mathis Names New V.P.
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Brandon Mathis, Student Government Association President, opened
Tuesday's meeting. Mathis is representative of many council members
who are anxious for productive change in the upcoming year.
Ground Water Study, which was
conducted by the N.C. Department
ofAgriculture and N.C.Department
of Environment, Health and Natu-ral
Resources. The board commis-sioned
the project and the General
Assembly has provided more than
$1.1 million in funding.
Assisting in the study were the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Natural Resources and Conserva-tion
Service, N.C. Cooperative Ex-tension
Service and N.C. Farm
Bureau Federation Inc., other gov-ernment
agencies and private land-owners.
Findings will help the Pesticide
Board implement Pesticide and
Ground Water State Management
Plans, which the U.S. Environmen-tal
Protection Agency will require
of states in the next few years.
These plans may limit or prohibit
the use of certain pesticide appli-cations
in some areas, such as the
herbicides atrazine and simazine
identified in the study as pesticides
of concern. EPA will also require
specific management plans for the
herbicides alachlor, metolachlor
and cyanazine.
The project had phases of sam-pling
and monitoring wells for the
study. While 31 pesticides were tar-geted,
laboratory analyses could
detect more than 140 pesticides. If
a chemical was detected, a follow-up
sample was collected and ana-lyzed
for confirmation. From the
152 wells sampled, pesticides were
found in a total of 18.
—

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The rolinian
Voi'tt;
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
News 1 -5 /Features 6-7
Sports 8-9/Classified 10
Telephone- (910) 334-5752
FM- (910) 334-3518
Online-http://oiolinian.uncg.edu/
Thursday
August 29,1996
NFL Preview
See the story page 8
£,*• Men's Soccer:
*# Spartan's triumph, page 8
Issue 2,
Volume 76
Searching For A Job
Kim McFadden/THK CAROLINIAN
The Seventh Annual Part-Time Job Fair was held In Cone Ballroom of the Elliott University Center on Tuesday. Over
50 potential employers took part in the event, which stirred up mixed reviews by students. For more Information, see
story on page 5.
Native Hawaiians consider
asking for Islands back
Ellen Nakashima
Times/Post News Senice
You can't lurn back the hands
of time, says Billy Pa.a Waikiki
surfing Instructor. But sometimes,
when he looks up at Diamond
Head, across the sweep of sand
freckled with tourists, he wishes
he could.
He talks about how Hawaiians
are sometimes shunned in their
own home. "A lot of my people
arc not welcome in Waikiki," he
said.
"Some of the hotels, the restau-rants,
the bars, they see a Hawai-ian
kid come around, they think.
'Watch out. There's gonna be
trouble.. ..' It's ridiculous."
He resents the hotels, the traf-fic
jams, the multinationals build-ing
golf courses and shopping
malls.
So Pa voted "ae," or yes, in a
state-funded referendum this
month. Only people of Hawaiian
ancestry, who make up one-tilth
of Hawaii's 1.2 million residents,
could participate. The governor-appointed
sovereignty elections
commission says that is because
the native Hawaiians' land and
sovereignty were forcibly taken
more than 100 years ago. The
mail-in ballot, results of which
could be announced next week,
asked one question, in English and
Hawaiian: "Shall the Hawaiian
people elect delegates to propose
a native Hawaiian government?"
The idea, organizers say, is not
to decide now what form sover-
Thursday:
Partly Cloudy
High in the mid 80's
Low in the lower 7()'s
Friday:
Partly Cloudy
High in mid 80's
Low in high 60's
Source: National Oceanic and
Atmoiphrric Administration
eignty should take, but whether
Hawaiians want to pursue it.
Proposals range from complete
independence to a land deal in
which the descendants of
Polynesian islanders who arrived
in Hawaii 1,000 years or more ago
would get all or some of the 1.75
million acres, almost half the state,
they say was stolen when the last
Hawaiian monarch was over-thrown.
On Jan. 17. 1893, 13 white
businessmen backed by three
companies of U.S. Marines forced
the Hawaiian queen,
Lili'uokalani. from her throne,
seized crown lands and ended
Hawaii's independence. The busi-nessmen,
mostly American,
wanted sugar tariffs lifted.
This group declared the Repub-lic
of Hawaii in 1894. The islands
were annexed as a U.S. territory
four years later. In 1959, given the
choice of remaining a territory or
becoming a state. Hawaiians voted
overwhelmingly for the latter and
Hawaii became the 50th state.
In 1993, on the 100th anniver-sary
of the overthrow, thcn-Gov.
John D. Waihee III (D) and the
first governor of Hawaiian ances-try,
raised the Hawaiian flag over
the state capitol. That same year.
Congress passed and President
Clinton signed a resolution apolo-gizing
to Hawaiians for the over-throw.
Gov. Benjamin J. Cayetano (D),
a second-generation Filipino
American, said he is all for Ha-waiians
pursuing sovereignty. But
it must be "a kind of sovereignty
which is acceptable to the non-
Hawaiians, as well as the United
States government."
Cayetano said the sovereignty
movement's lack of clarity has
made some people nervous. "The
bankers in town have told me that
they hope the movement would
become more defined because
there's so much uncertainty," he
said. "All sorts of activists are say-ing
so many things that no one
knows where consensus may be
gained."
To Pa, a stocky 57-year-old
whose bloodlines are "over half
Hawaiian," the issue is clear: "To
be blunt, I think my ancestors got
screwed."
Like American Indians, native
Hawaiians suffer disproportion-ately
high rates of poverty, alco-holism,
suicide and incarceration.
Forty percent of Hawaii's home-less
are native Hawaiian, said
Mahealani Kamau'u, who, as ex-ecutive
director of the Native Ha-waiian
Legal Corp., represents
Hawaiians pressing land claims
arising from prc-statehood prac-tices.
"We're one-fifth of the popula-tion
here," said Kamau'u, a mem-ber
of the Hawaiian Sovereignty
Elections Council. "We pay one-fifth
into the treasury. Yet we're
the most landless of the people liv-ing
in Hawaii. ... All we're ask-ing
for is our land and self-deter-mination."
This kind of talk upsets many
longtime islanders of non-Hawai-ian
descent such as Thurston
Twigg-Smith. "It's a crazy no-tion!"
said
Twigg-Smith, 74, chairman of
the board of the Honolulu
Advertiser,whose grandfather was
a leader of the 1893 coup. "The
Civil War showed that you can't
secede from the Union."
Twigg-Smith, who is Cauca-sian,
or "haole," maintains the
land never belonged to the people,
but to Hawaiian chiefs and so were
government lands.
Haunani-Kay Trask, press sec-retary
for the sovereignty group
Ka Lahui Hawaii, dismisses
Twigg-Smith's remarks as "just a
white man's version" of history.
"All the constitutions in Hawaii
clearly say that the chief repre-sented
the people and held the land
for the people," said Trask, who
heads the Center for Hawaiian
Studies at the University of Ha-waii.
In 1894, the provisional govern-ment
seized control of almost 2
million acres later ceded to the
U.S. government. Some was used
for military bases. The rest went
to the state, which has built on it
Ruhm appointed Senior
Economist with Clinton
By Wilson Davis
Information Services
Greensboro - Dr. Christopher
I. Ruhm. a professor of econom-ics
at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, has been
appointed as a senior economist
with President Bill Clinton's
Council of Economic Advisors.
The appointment in Washing-ton
is for one year. Ruhm will take
a year's leave of absence from the
Joseph M. Bryan School of Busi-ness
and Economics at UNCG,
beginning at the end of August.
Ruhm received the call to ask
him if he would be interested in
the position from Alicia Munnell,
one of three members of the
Council of Economic Advisors.
"I was totally stunned," said
Ruhm. "But I was also pleasantly
surprised."
Ruhm will be one of 10 senior
economists with the Council of
Economic Advisors, which re-ports
to the President.
The senior economists are not
political appointees, but are in-stead
professional appointments.
"I'm very excited about going,"
said Ruhm. "I'm thrilled and ex-cited,
and a bit nervous all at the
same time. It's going to be a good
challenge for me."
"We are delighted for Chris to
have this opportunity," said Dr.
James Weeks, dean of the Bryan
School. "It reflects favorably not
only on Chris but also on the Uni-versity,
the Bryan School and the
quality of our faculty.
His appointment is recognition
at the highest level of the quality
of his research and its importance
for public policy.
"We are going to miss Chris in
the year ahead, but we know he
will do an outstanding job in his
position in Washington."
Ruhm came to UNCG in 1991.
He specializes in labor econom-ics,
health economics and applied
econometrics.
Since arriving at UNCG, he
has been a prolific researcher.
His studies have gained the at-tention
of such publications as
Newsweek magazine, the Wall
Street Journal and USA Today,
among others.
He also has been interviewed
on National Public Radio on the
subject of Physicians Health
Plans.
Ruhm says he sees his Wash-ington
appointment as "A once-in-
a-lifetime opportunity."
"I am looking forward to get-ting
hand-on experience in the
area ofhow public policy is made
in Washington," he said.
"Of course, we teach about
public policy, but people tell me
that when you are actually there
and working in government, you
learn a tremendous amount."
Ruhm's areas of expertise as a
senior economist will be in the
areas of Social Security and
Medicare. But he said it is his un-pi1^
^M
1
V
On His Way To Washington:
Dr. Christopher J. Ruhm was
appointed to Clinton's Council of
Economic Advisor
derstanding "that you can be called
to work in other areas and on other
issues as well."
The Council of Economic Advi-sors
and its staff provide analysis
of a presidential proposal or a pro-posal
made in Congress.
"We will be called upon to pro-vide
an analysis ofthe proposal and
to try to determine its economic im-pact,"
said Ruhm.
He paused and then said, "I am
not going up there to push public
policy in any particular area. But
my job will be to help provide in-formation
and insight into issues
that come before the Council of
Economic Advisors My under-standing
is that they keep us ex-tremely
busy."
Report shows no widespread
contamination of ground water
Bv Ernie Seneca
N.C. Department ofAgriculture
Raleigh —A four-year study to
determine the effect of labeled
pesticide use on ground water in
North Carolina reports that no
widespread contamination exists,
although several areas with con-firmed
chemical residues still
need further monitoring.
The N.C. Pesticide Board on
Tuesday adopted the final report
of the Intcragcncy Pesticide
Mathis Names New V.P.
iiL
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*■■--. j
'
ft I : ^: |
.
* 1 jm&iL •
m «
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•
2Sh
'"■vr 1
Brandon Mathis, Student Government Association President, opened
Tuesday's meeting. Mathis is representative of many council members
who are anxious for productive change in the upcoming year.
Ground Water Study, which was
conducted by the N.C. Department
ofAgriculture and N.C.Department
of Environment, Health and Natu-ral
Resources. The board commis-sioned
the project and the General
Assembly has provided more than
$1.1 million in funding.
Assisting in the study were the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's
Natural Resources and Conserva-tion
Service, N.C. Cooperative Ex-tension
Service and N.C. Farm
Bureau Federation Inc., other gov-ernment
agencies and private land-owners.
Findings will help the Pesticide
Board implement Pesticide and
Ground Water State Management
Plans, which the U.S. Environmen-tal
Protection Agency will require
of states in the next few years.
These plans may limit or prohibit
the use of certain pesticide appli-cations
in some areas, such as the
herbicides atrazine and simazine
identified in the study as pesticides
of concern. EPA will also require
specific management plans for the
herbicides alachlor, metolachlor
and cyanazine.
The project had phases of sam-pling
and monitoring wells for the
study. While 31 pesticides were tar-geted,
laboratory analyses could
detect more than 140 pesticides. If
a chemical was detected, a follow-up
sample was collected and ana-lyzed
for confirmation. From the
152 wells sampled, pesticides were
found in a total of 18.
—